Using konstruct to install KDE 3.4.2, plenty of questions :)
Hello !
I think of using Konstruct for upgrading my KDE 3.3.2 to KDE 3.4.2 on my beloved french Mandriva 2005 LE.
I have read the readme but since i'm still new to the Linux world (I made the switch from MS-windows four months ago), I'll be more reassured if I ask for a confirmation of my guesses :)
I have plenty of questions, so I have tried to sort them a bit. After all, each of them is linked to the other. I have searched forums and google for most of them, so the remaining ones are the questions for which I found no crystal-clear answers (well, clear enough for a half-newb !)
Thanks a lot if you can reply to those questions, or a part of those :)
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1/ The lazy solution
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First, in order to avoid hard work if possible : would you know of a repository for Mandriva 2005 LE RPMs for KDE 3.4.2 ?
I searched a bit without success. There was a thread but the links given in it are dead links, alas.
"Thacs" repository might have looked good, but for the two apps I tried to install from its RPMs, it failed, so I suspect the builder of those RPMs had some stuff that I don't have myself, which makes it unproper for me.
Without RPMs, i'll do it the konstruct way :)
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2/ Overlapping KDEs ?
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If I install KDE into /home/sabin/kde3.4.2 (yeah, ~ is /home/sabin/ ) with konstruct, as default setting does, does that mean that I will have the choice, on startup, between KDE 3.3.2 and 3.4.2 ?
Or can there only be one official KDE version per system, the previous version, though not deleted, being "temporarily forgotten" ? Having to define KDEHOME after konstruct ran makes me think this. But I don't mind a confirmation just in order to be careful :?
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3/ The quest for KDEHOME
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The readme says :
Quote:
«Setting KDEHOME too, e.g. "export KDEHOME=~/.kdetest", will tell KDE to save your settings to this directory and leave default ~/.kde directory unaffected.»
-> So ~/.kde, is the official actual KDEHOME so far ? (that folder actually exists for me, indeed)
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4/ Uninstalling that 3.4.2 and declaring previous paths
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If I want to uninstall that KDE 3.4.2 version, what must I do ?
There will be a step about restoring previous official dirs, shall there ?
I'm a bit worried because for some of the official dirs I can't find their present location. The readme says to declare, after konstruct ran, QTDIR, KDEDIR, KDEDIRS. But when I run this into the adress bar of Konqueror, only QTDIR works, and for KDEDIR and KDEDIRS that says "impossible to run specified command" (the actual message being in french, it's a translation !).
So I cannot know where they are at the present time, which means that once I have declared their new location, I don't know how I could, in reverse, get them to be declared to their previous location.
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5/ if I wish to overwrite KDE 3.3.2
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If to the contrary i'm wholly satisfied with my new 3.4.2, I will probably want to make this 3.4.2 the only KDE on my desktop, so that things are more simple. Thus I would like to :
- uninstall that 3.4.2 from its ~/kde3.4.2 folder
- install it again, but this time right over version 3.3.2.
Is it possible to install 3.4.2 over 3.3.2 using konstruct ?
That's probably by changing the installation folder at konstruct startup, but I found no mention on how to do it :?
Or can two KDE versions coexist peacefully ? You know, as a windows user, having two different versions of a program coexisting is risky and strongly unadvised, but after all, maybe that might be different in Linux... :roll:
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6/ Localization questions
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The readme says :
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«If you want to have KDE localized into your native language, look into the i18n/ directory, change to your language directory and start "make install".»
-> Does that have to be done before, or after running konstruct ?
There's a Koffice mention.
Erm, I have Open Office preinstalled on my 2005 LE, but Open Office is NOT Koffice, so I won't need to install localization for Koffice too, isn't it ?
(unless I'm mistaken, Koffice is a KDE port of Open Office : once again, i think I've got the reply already, i'm just being careful :wink: )
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7/ How long would it take ?
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Would you know how long, in average, konstruct will take to download, compile and install everything, if I chose the kde/everything option ? One hour ? Five hours ? One month ? :twisted:
(for info, I have one gig of fast RAM, a P4 2.4Ghz, plenty of space on my hard disk, and an 8MB internet connexion)
Those were plenty of questions, wasn't it ? Sorry if i'm a bother !
Thanks a lot if you can reply to those questions, or a part of those :)
